Army Appropriation Bill, 1918: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, Second Session. December 6, 1916, to January 15, 1917U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 1235 pages |
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additional Adjutant ammunition amount estimated annum ANTHONY approved authorized second increment battalion bill buildings CALDWELL camps Capt Cavalry cent CHAIRMAN clerks Coast Artillery colonels committee construction Cost fiscal CROZIER current requirements department authorities depots duty employees Engineers enlisted equipment Estimate fiscal expenses Field Artillery fiscal year 1916 Fort Sam Houston funds Government grade Grand total horses Hospital increase indorsement Infantry Item R. S. KAHN Lewis gun machine guns manufacture MCCAIN MCKELLAR ment militia national defense act National Guard national-defense act necessary organizations Philippine Islands Philippine Scouts posts present strength purchase Quartermaster Corps quarters quirements recruiting regiments Regular Army rental repair Reserve Corps Reserve Officers retired rifle SCOTT second lieutenants Secretary BAKER Secretary of War senior division sergeants SHALLENBERGER SHARPE Signal Corps stations struction submitted subsistence supplies TILSON tion total of item Training Corps transportation troops United War Department
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Page 744 - Army and its state of preparation for military operations; to render professional aid and assistance to the Secretary of War and to general officers and other superior commanders, and to act as their agents in informing and coordinating the action of all the different officers who are subject under the terms of this act to the supervision of the Chief of Staff; and to perform such other military duties not otherwise assigned by law as may be from time to time prescribed by the President.
Page 284 - ... places of purchase and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the...
Page 626 - ... and means of production, and availability of military supplies; the giving of information to producers and manufacturers as to the class of supplies needed by the military and other services of the government, the requirements relating thereto, and the creation of relations which will render possible in time of need the immediate concentration and utilization of the resources of the nation.
Page 284 - Provided ^ That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service...
Page 637 - ... institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained.
Page 641 - Institutions applying for such detail that are required to provide instruction in military tactics under the provisions of the act of Congress of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where the leading object shall be the practical instruction of the industrial classes in agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 626 - Defense to supervise and direct investigations and make recommendations to the President and the heads of executive departments as to the location of railroads with reference to the frontier of the United States so as to render possible expeditious concentration of troops and supplies to points o? defense; the coordination of military, industrial, and commercial purposes in...
Page 841 - I will bear true faith and allegiance to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies whomsoever ; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States, and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to the Rules and Articles of War.
Page 318 - On and after July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, an enlisted man when discharged from the service, except by way of punishment for an offense, shall receive 3 J cents per mile from the place of his discharge to the place of his acceptance for enlistment, enrollment, or original muster into the service, at his option: Provided, That for sea travel on discharge transportation and subsistence only shall be furnished to enlisted men.
Page 325 - Unless otherwise expressly provided by law, no officer of the services mentioned in the title of this Act shall be allowed or paid any sum in excess of expenses actually...